Nothing Biodiversity? Nothing Biomass

 (Temporary Translation)

Like all new things that are on the horizon of our knowledge the theme around the biomass suffers from mode, imperfections and "viewpoints" that have yet to tackle the deepening phase or, if you like, purification semantics.
Interest born and has been developing biomass is logically influenced by the energy aspects, economic, technical and ethical.
Via more that we are in the maze of Sustainable Development we realize that the concepts behind this new vision of Social Development is based on the simple premise that the life to be and develop energy needs and that this source of energy must remain constant and available at the highest possible period. The availability of energy sources is therefore the starting point in order to ensure that future generations (Brundtland Report 1987) to meet their own needs.
But energy sources are not all equivalent and principles of thermodynamics teaches us to distinguish between energy sources and machinery at different thermodynamic performance.
The use of a source of energy is possible thanks to a machine thermodynamics, that is a system that is able to have input in a form and energy output in a form different energy. The final result will be to have produced some useful work on with a performance that call processing performance. The non-transformed rate will be defined entropy that is a function of irreversibility (or if you want to disorder) system.
So far so good, but the elements that we have learned at school, but when these concepts trasliamo them in the ecosystem things get complicated, it would be better to say, complessizzano. Based on a comparison of disciplinary scientists as Leon Brillouin, negaentropia, Erwin Schroedinger on the theory that bodies are nourished negative energy and Ilya Prigogine, relative to dissipative structures of Energy, has shown that the condition of Ecosystem in totopotenzialità, and for a given environment, is the most efficient machine thermodynamics.
* That conclusion was reached by comparing the work that Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot had done and already published in 1824 and its subsequent speculation.
Now, briefly recalling the principles of thermodynamics, we realize that the Biological Systems have complessizzati to raise the point maximum possible energy efficiency that comes from solar energy and that of our planet.
In biological systems each organism behaves as a machine thermodynamics. Every single machine thermodynamics of biological system not only uses solar energy and land but also of "waste processing" other bodies working ultimately as a "Living Single Body."
What we do today is not included (from the Policy Research) is that every body is useful in the service of others.
Togliendone go to a decrease in the functioning of the system and several pieces lose more evil work my Ecosystem.
In short: the value dell'Entropia that in biological systems thermodynamic assumes certain values, as the system degrades (loses pieces) is growing increasingly to the detriment of the overall performance of our biological machine. To use such a term and unfortunately known in our city, a degraded ecosystem uses evil energy available and thus pollute more. The value is growing dell'Entropia for all systems thermodynamic a scale measuring pollution and nezanesljivih energy.
Now, returning to the title of this contribution seems all too obvious that the issues on the use of biomass for the production of energy, missing all too frequently parameters of a comprehensive energy efficiency. In return for the use of biomass refers to various parameters but very rarely does a total budget, and when you do not orthodox manner.
Scientific research has serious difficulties in parametrare an energy balance of the ecosystem and bibliography consulted does not help much.
The issue is that, when assessing the efficiency of energy production from biomass is not taken into account capital.
An Ecosystem which reached the totopotenzialità took a long period is all this time was needed to accumulate energy in the form of energy material. In simple terms, the system has complessizzato through its biodiversity, is nothing else than the transformation into a long-term energy accumulated. The relativistic vision of Einstein meeting letting us understand that there is an equivalence between perfect and Matter and Energy studies Ilya Prigogine enlighten us about the nature and function of the wealth of biodiversity as a basis for the operation of the machine thermodynamics ecosystem.
Unfortunately, in feasibility studies and budgets that we see around this still lacks methodological approach, which is not small.
For example ad absurdum: if today want to get a production of energy from biomass, whether he has admitted to the smallest details of the budget energy efficiency (eg. From cogeneration) and I used a great extension monoculture, while comforted by this type of budget, I have taken a impoverishment of the ecosystem, with consequent lowering of thermodynamics System. An energy balance that does not take account of assets (Biodiversity and Ecosystem), as happens in economics, is a budget for this partial and inaccurate.

Conclusions

As aspects of biodiversificazione must be addressed by modern agriculture in the same way ni več and unthinkable (from a scientific point of view and technical) to obtain energy from biomass systems low biodiversity.
This means that:
• The "business" for the production of energy from biomass will be based on systems complessizzati, namely on agricultural systems that emulino maximum potential vegetation of the site;
• The machines for the processing of these energy production should be polyfunctional, namely to use the best products and waste production or processing;
• The energy balance must take into account two aspects: 1 - The traditional, ie performance processing of the biomass of departure in other forms of energy; 2 - The asset, ie a ratio between energy and biodiversity potential of the current site.

Standards legal, technical and application it will take substantial suggestion.

Guido Bissanti

* "Biodiversity and Power of Matter"
Dr. Agr. Guido Bissanti - Contribution on the theme - Biodiversity and Bioethics -
C.N.R. -- National Research Council - January 16, 2008.